Perplexity Fund

Investing in decade-defining early stage AI

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

Competition starts Apr 14... make sure you have a Perplexity subscription to build with Computer before registration opens!

Sign up for Pro or Max BEFORE the start date to be able to participate - https://t.co/laABbI6qmQ

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Today we're announcing the Billion Dollar Build.

An 8-week competition where teams will use Perplexity Computer to build a company with a path to $1B.

Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1M in investment from the Perplexity Fund and up to $1M in Computer credits.

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

lfg 🦾

[David Hansen 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 @boxcardavid]

Westmag is building American robot actuators and drone motors at scale.

In 2025, @westmagco raised $11M led by @a16z, with participation from @FoundersFund, @LuxCapital, NFDG, @MenloVentures, and other top investors.

Since then, we’ve been building industrial capacity, crawling up supply chains, and securing high-volume customers.

Now, we’re ramping production at our factory in South San Francisco to deliver against committed offtake orders from high-volume customers.

Westmag is committed to scaling quickly in the US to deliver millions of drone motors and robot actuators to the surging domestic and global market.

We’re building the great American motor and actuator company.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Today we're releasing Personal Computer.

Personal Computer integrates with the Perplexity Mac App for secure orchestration across your local files, native apps, and browser.

We’re rolling this out to all Perplexity Max subscribers and everyone on the waitlist starting today.

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@hkimia Love the quant mindset powering NationGraph's workflows.. great behind the scenes from Mae!

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

👉 Billion Dollar Builders Discord server: https://t.co/aKtk2ZwJfO

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

The Billion Dollar Build competition starts now.

Register and start building (window opens 12:01am 4/14): https://t.co/nwnJOG6M3r

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

More:
👉 The Billion Dollar Build page: https://t.co/g5Mjx5MsOq

[Autoscience Institute @AutoScienceAI]

@AnthropicAI just highlighted us in their latest research on AI-driven scientific discovery.

This is where things are heading. 🧵

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

Launch alert from @simdotai - Mothership

Deploy agents and watch them work in separate tabs, for Jira ticket workflows and way more 💪

Proud to back @emkara , Waleed, and the Sim team as they build out the fastest growing platform to build and orchestrate AI agents.

[Emir Karabeg @emkara]

Introducing Mothership, the first workspace for AI agents.

Mothership is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.

Autonomous agents, fully observable and editable.

Check out what Mothership can do below.

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

Autoscience blog post: https://t.co/75DLT8o7eP

and job board (SWE + ML research scientist roles!): https://t.co/6VwXcv5eJI

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

Proud to back @AutoScienceAI -- Eliot and team are building autonomous AI research labs for the era of machine-scale discovery 🚀

from its system medaling at a Kaggle comp to authoring/publishing a peer-reviewed paper, Autoscience is definitely one to watch.

[Autoscience Institute @AutoScienceAI]

Dario: “The biggest thing to watch is this issue of AI systems building AI systems.”

Today, Autoscience is announcing $14M in funding by General Catalyst, Perplexity Fund and Toyota Ventures to create autonomous AI research labs.

Human AI researchers can't keep up with the pace of new AI research. They’re out of time to run the experiments they want. So we’re building an autonomous AI lab that can.

The era of human-scale R&D is over. Machine-scale development has begun. 🚀

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@perplexity_ai Personal Computer waitlist: https://t.co/lkVpKmom2H

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

Big morning w/ @perplexity_ai at #Ask2026 🚀
Launches dropped:
- Computer on mobile
- Computer for Enterprise (SOC 2, HIPAA, on‑prem)
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[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@perplexity_ai Crowd favorite: on‑prem deployment — Perplexity’s web index + multi‑model orchestration, on your own infra 😍

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

(but wait there's more)
- Personal Computer (always‑on, local merge; waitlist)
- @SlackHQ integration for human‑AI handoff
- Sandbox API for secure agent execution
- Agent API for managed agentic workflows

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

This will 100x productivity and possibilities--

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Perplexity Computer.

Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system.

It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@trynationgraph @MenloVentures @perplexity_ai @xyz_vc @reachfund Let's go @trynationgraph !!🚀

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@hkimia @trynationgraph So hyped to back you and the team, @hkimia 🚀 exciting to see @trynationgraph making messy public sector data clear and accessible for businesses 💪

[Kimia Hamidi @hkimia]

I'm excited to share that @trynationgraph has raised $18M USD to help businesses predict and win public sector sales.

Selling into government is uniquely complex. 110,000+ institutions, each with its own portals, formats, and funding cycles. Here's what we're doing about it. 👇

[Perplexity Fund @PerplexityFund]

@AutoScienceAI AI system medalling in a @kaggle competition in Jan.. lfg 🚀

Eliot Cowan & team are building Autoscience to automate the mechanics of discovery. https://t.co/HFB8gQFzj6

[Autoscience Institute @AutoScienceAI]

Our AI discovery system just entered a Silver Medal spot on a live $50k Kaggle leaderboard. 🥈

The system autonomously engineers solutions without human input.